Robert Blumen

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• Bearish on Gold, For the Wrong Reasons

  Published 08 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In a recent article, The Case Against Gold David Berman interviews a Canadian fund manager who is bearish for all of the wrong reasons. As…

• The Myth of the Gold Supply Deficit

  Published 08 October 2006 | viewed 5,975 times

  Analyses based on annual supply and demand of gold appear on a daily basis, whether posted to gold web sites or in the financial media,…

• Real Bills, Phony Wealth: Debtor's Prison

  Published 04 September 2006 | viewed 5,162 times

  He who sells what isn't his'n buys it back or goes to prison. -- saying An "elastic currency" has been one of the rallying cries…

• Must Bernanke Choose Deflation?

  Published 17 June 2006 | viewed 5,618 times

  Mike Shedlock, in his consistently thoughtful and informative blog, provides an excellent summary of the box canyon in which the Fed finds itself. In a…

• Real Bills, Phony Wealth: Financing is not Funding

  Published 11 June 2006 | viewed 4,786 times

  Financing is not funding. Finance is a means of keeping track of who has agreed to fund what, through contractual arrangements known as bonds, notes…

• The Organization of Debt into Currency: On the Monetary Thought of Charles Holt Carroll

  Published 07 May 2006 | viewed 7,533 times

  This article originally was published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. "There can be nothing more unreal in its pretensions than debt currency itself." -…

• Bernankeism: Fraud or Menace?

  Published 05 December 2005 | viewed 6,031 times

  This article was originally given as a talk at the Burton S. Blumert conference on Gold, Freedom, and Peace, a benefit for LewRockwell.com. In 2002,…

• Real Bills, Phony Wealth: An Error in Fekethmetic

  Published 16 October 2005 | viewed 4,004 times

  "One of the main tasks of economics," wrote Mises, "is to explode the basic inflationary fallacy that confused the thinking of authors and statesmen from…

• Real Bills, Phony Wealth: Tastes Great! Less Filling?

  Published 09 October 2005 | viewed 2,869 times

  "The fundamental error of our financial policy lies in the attempt to create wealth by creating currency: it is putting the servant before the master…

• Real Bills, Phony Wealth: Christmas with the Cranks

  Published 08 October 2005 | viewed 2,831 times

  An earlier version of this article appeared on the web site of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The masses are misled by the assertions of…

• Real Bills, Phony Wealth: Unclear on the Concept

  Published 09 October 2005 | viewed 4,297 times

  Saving is no fun. Americans have very nearly given up the habit -- what good reason could there be for reducing consumption? The desire to…